What about try:except:finally

[Matthew Schinckel]

On Jul 8, I overheard Alan Daniels mutter:

> On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:20:25 GMT, Thomas Weholt <thomas at cintra.no> wrote:
> 
> [paraphrased...]
> >Does python support, or if not, would it be cool to have support for
> >try/except/finally?
> 
> No, but just use try/except/else instead. Why it's "else" instead of
> "finally", I have no idea, but this works just fine. Example:

Yes, but if you want a statement executed regardless of whether there was
an exception or not, you need to use a finally clause.

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Matthew Schinckel     <matt at null.net>
 
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